Magdalena
Magdalena is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
- Aramaic : "the one from Magdala " (place on the Sea of Galilee , can be translated as "tower"), see Maria Magdalena
variants
- Alena (Belarusian, Slovak, Czech)
- Alenka (Slovenian)
- Alenn
- Annalena
- Madalenn (Breton)
- Maddalena , Maddalina (Italian)
- Madelaine
- Madeleine, Madelon (French), Magdeleine
- Madelena (Spanish, Portuguese)
- Madelene (German, derived from French)
- Madeline, Madline, Magdalen, Madalyn, Maud (English)
- Madi (Bern German)
- Madlaina, Madleina (Rhaeto-Romanic)
- Madlena (Upper Sorbian, German)
- Madlene, Madlen (German)
- Madlenka , Lenka (Czech, Sorbian)
- Mady , Maddy , Maddie , pet forms in different languages
- Madzia (Polish diminutive ), also Magdusia, Magdunia, Magdeczka, Magdalenka
- Magdalawit (Eritrean, Ethiopian)
- Magdalen (English)
- Magdalena (Bulgarian, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Serbian)
- Magdalene (German, English)
- Magdalina Магдалина (Russian)
- Magdolna (Hungarian)
- Magga, Maggie, Maggy (short forms)
- Malena (Spanish)
- Mădălina (Romanian)
- Malene (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian)
- Malin, Målin (Swedish)
- Malina (German)
- Marlene (German)
- Talena (Latvian, Scottish)
- Magdalena, Marlena, Maralena, Madlena (Albanian)
Short forms:
- Lena, Leni (also from Helena ), Lenchen
- Magda
name day
Name days are:
- May 25 after Maria Magdalena de Pazzi († May 25, 1607)
- July 22 to Mary Magdalene
Name bearers
All variations
- Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017), Polish visual artist
- Magdalena Sophie Barat (1779–1865), founder of the order, see Sophie Barat
- Magda Bäumken (1890–1959), German folk actress
- Magdalena Brzeska (* 1978), Polish-German gymnast
- Magdalena Chojnacka (* 1975), Polish DJ, see Magda (DJ)
- Magdalena Forsberg (* 1967), Swedish biathlete
- Magda Goebbels (1901–1945), wife of Joseph Goebbels
- Magdalene Heuvelmann (* 1959), German historian
- Magdalena Karčiauskienė (* 1919), Lithuanian pedagogue, professor
- Magdalena Kožená (* 1973), Czech opera singer
- Magdalena Łapaj (* 1988), Polish saxophonist
- Magdalena Maleeva (* 1975), Bulgarian tennis player
- Magdalena Martullo-Blocher (* 1969), Swiss entrepreneur and politician
- Magdalena Müller (1941–2004), German journalist and television presenter
- Magdalen Nabb (1947-2007), British writer
- Magdalena Neuner (* 1987), German biathlete
- Magdalena Ogórek (* 1979), Polish politician
- Magdalena Ritter (* 1957), German actress
- Magdalena von Rudy (* 1973), Polish artist
- Magda Schneider (1909–1996), German actress
- Magdalena Strompach (1919–1988), Slovak painter, restorer and teacher
- Magdalena Szaj (* 1995), Polish national soccer player
- Magdalena Tulli (* 1955), Polish writer
- Magdalena Turba (* 1983), German voice actress
Nobles
- Magdalene of Saxony (1507–1534), wife of Joachim II of Brandenburg
- Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (1532–1590), founder and abbess of the women's monastery in Hall in Tirol
- Magdalena zur Lippe (1552–1587), by marriage the first Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt
- Magdalena Sibylle von Prussia (1586–1659), daughter of Albrecht Friedrich von Prussia
- Magdalene von Hessen-Kassel (1611–1671), princess of Hessen-Kassel and by marriage old countess of Salm-Reifferscheid
- Magdalena Sibylle von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1612–1687), daughter of Christian von Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- Magdalena Sibylle of Saxony (1617–1668), Duchess of Saxony-Altenburg
- Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648–1681), Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
- Magdalena Sibylla von Hessen-Darmstadt (1652–1712), married to Wilhelm Ludwig von Württemberg
- Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen-Weißenfels (1673–1726), Duchess of Sachsen-Eisenach
- Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1679–1740), Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
- Madeleine of Sweden (* 1982), daughter of King Carl XVI. Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Silvia of Sweden
Shaping literature
- Madeline , picture book series by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Magdalena , Volksstück by Ludwig Thoma (1912)
- Magdalene (Lene) Nimptsch, main character in Irrungen, Verrungen by Theodor Fontane
- Talena, heroine in the science fiction cycle Gor by John Norman
additional
- Magdalena , city in Bolivia
- (318) Magdalena , asteroid of the main belt
- Río Magdalena , river in Colombia
- Hurricane Madeline , tropical cyclone